Ubertor Real Estate Blog

Ben Schmidt a Realtor in New Brunswick has gone out and shot a few video interviews with a few politicians on the top of property tax. Video interviews are a great way to create good quality content for your website. Check out some of the videos that Ben has put together and think about what you can do with video in your market.

Property Tax Week – Jack MacDougall Provincial Leader of the Green Party

Property Tax Week – Greg Byrne – Finance Minister, Liberal Party – Part 1

Property Tax Week – Jason Purdy of NDP

Property Tax Week – Brian MacDonald of PC

Property Tax Week – Jason Stephen of NBREA

Pete Shpak, Managing Broker of Sea to Sky Properties has launched a new website focused on “Vuppies“. Yes, Vancouver Urban Professionals. This site, customized by Ubertor Approved Vendor deBruyn Design is about to go live. Check it out:

Vancouver based Macdonald Realty just posted a video to their Facebook page. It is a great example of how brokerages can use video to grow their business. Nice work Macdonald Realty!

Is your brokerage using video to showcase their business? Drop a link in the comments with what they are doing.

OutsourcingThingsDone.com has notified us of a virtual assistant that has finished up working for a Realtor and is available for work with a new client. You can see VA Jayson’s introduction video below. Ever considered a virtual assistant? This might be a good way to get started with one that has experience with the real estate industry. For more details contact OutsourcingThingsDone.com

Shawn Dreger, a Regina Realtor dropped one of his most recent videos into the Ubertor Facebook page. This video is an example video of how he plans to showcase his listings on the internet with the use of video. Nice work Shawn!

Also great to see a welcome video on his home page. Take a moment to check out what Shawn is doing with his Ubertor website.

A few years ago, we started a program to work closer with companies that wanted to work with our Realtor clients. Over the past few years we have grown that list of Approved Vendors and began working closer with them.

Are you looking for a content writer? web designer to freshen up your website? web marketing education? virtual support?

Check out our Ubertor Approved Vendors:

- Platinum Approved Vendors

Reachd (details)
Skills: SEO, PayPerClick, and Social Media Training

Realty Support Services (details)
Skills: Listings Management, Web Design, Copy Writing

Kuni Designs (details)
Skills: CSS, Web Design

deBruyn Design+Marketing (details)
Skills: Custom Ubertor website design, CSS, Realtor branding + marketing, print media design, project marketing, advertising and video production/editing.

MarcoDiStefano.com (details)
Skills: Project marketing, advertising and lead generation.

SplitMango Media Inc. (details)
Skills: Full/Semi Custom Ubertor Design, CSS, Logo Design & Branding, Custom Web Development

Designs4Realtors.com (details)
Skills: Custom Ubertor Website Design, Real Estate Photography, Logo & Print Design, Search Engine Optimization, (SEO), Marketing, Branding & Copy Writing. Based in Toronto, Canada.

- Gold Approved Vendors

No Shortcut Design Inc. (details)
Skills: brand consulting, designing logo and creating visual communication tools such as Stationery, Brochures, Books, Packaging, Posters, Advertising and Websites.

Tordia Images (details)
Skills: Professional Quality Real Estate Photography, Video Tours and 360 Degree Virtual Tours; Custom Ubertor website design, CSS, Realtor branding + marketing.

SeoArticleWritingPros.com (details)
Website Content Writing, Article Writing, Article Marketing, Blogging, Press Releases

- Silver Approved Vendors

The Marketing Guy (details)
Skills: Marketing & Design

Frankenmedia Design (details)
Skills: Web & graphic design, Logo and branding design, online and print marketing, SEO, social media

Get expert advice from an Ubertor specialist on how to use the basics of the system. This is a great start for all new Ubertor users eager to learn how to begin maximizing their website for the most return. This is a live guided tour of Ubertor’s control panel – so if you’re on the fences about Ubertor’s software, click in and join the tour. See how easy it is to get a website up and running.

Join in 2 easy steps (Live Tour is FREE):

1. Register for the Live Tour on December 2nd, 2010 @ 3:00 PM PST.

Simply click on this LINK at the time of the LIVE TOUR and JOIN!

2.  Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) – a headset is recommended.

The live tour will go over the following topics:

1. Logging into your control panel (1 minute)

2. The Dashboard – Overview of cool tools to get your site running (9 minutes)

* Google Maps – Map your listings with 3 different views
* Google XML SiteMaps – Get found on Google faster than others
* Feedburner – Get your blog going with Feedburner
* Google Analytics – Start tracking the number of people coming to your site
* Favicon – Change your favorites icon

3. Crafting your own page (15 minutes)

* Adding content
* Adding photos
* Adding videos

4. Power marketing your listings (15 minutes)

* Display your photos
* Adding files, like floor plans and strata docs to your listings
* Mapping your listing on Google
* Giving your listing its own domain (URL)
* Adding music to your listing
* Have an open house? Advertise the listing as an open house
* Virtual Tours
* Get your listing on Craigslist – and looking good!
* Adding your own filmed video to the listing

5. Unveil the power of CSS and how it can help you mastercraft your website (5 minutes)

6. What is Twitter? How to use it with your website (5 minutes)

7. Q & A (10 minutes)

**1 LUCKY attendee will win $57.00, just for taking the tour!**

We have updated the design of the email that is sent out from the Ubertor blog for all of you subscribers. It is a cleaner look and was customized by Ubertor Approved Vendor Kuni Design. If you are interested in getting the Ubertor blog in your email (5 posts at a time) you can subscribe by putting your email in here.

Ubertor client Susan Ninow had a video interview shot for her website. You can check it out here;

Get expert advice from an Ubertor specialist on how to use the basics of the system. This is a great start for all new Ubertor users eager to learn how to begin maximizing their website for the most return. This is a live guided tour of Ubertor’s control panel – so if you’re on the fences about Ubertor’s software, click in and join the tour. See how easy it is to get a website up and running.

Join in 2 easy steps (Live Tour is FREE):

1. Register for the Live Tour on November 23rd, 2010 @ 10:00 AM PST.

Simply click on this LINK at the time of the LIVE TOUR and JOIN!

2.  Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) – a headset is recommended.

The live tour will go over the following topics:

1. Logging into your control panel (1 minute)

2. The Dashboard – Overview of cool tools to get your site running (9 minutes)

* Google Maps – Map your listings with 3 different views
* Google XML SiteMaps – Get found on Google faster than others
* Feedburner – Get your blog going with Feedburner
* Google Analytics – Start tracking the number of people coming to your site
* Favicon – Change your favorites icon

3. Crafting your own page (15 minutes)

* Adding content
* Adding photos
* Adding videos

4. Power marketing your listings (15 minutes)

* Display your photos
* Adding files, like floor plans and strata docs to your listings
* Mapping your listing on Google
* Giving your listing its own domain (URL)
* Adding music to your listing
* Have an open house? Advertise the listing as an open house
* Virtual Tours
* Get your listing on Craigslist – and looking good!
* Adding your own filmed video to the listing

5. Unveil the power of CSS and how it can help you mastercraft your website (5 minutes)

6. What is Twitter? How to use it with your website (5 minutes)

7. Q & A (10 minutes)

**1 LUCKY attendee will win $57.00, just for taking the tour!**